Expatriates play polo on Segway Human Transporters before a charity polo match at Dubai Polo Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Segway is a self-balancing personal transportation device that relies on a gyroscopic system to keep level. The sport of Segway Polo is a popular pre-polo activity in Dubai.
Riot Act
Surrounded by purple smoke, Jamaican civilians and Caribbean police and soldiers participate in a mock riot as part of security preparations for the March 2007 Cricket World Cup at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, Tuesday, April 4, 2006.
Water Slide
An aquatic slide of an outdoor swimming pool stands above flood water at Cossebaude, near Dresden, eastern Germany, on Tuesday, April 4, 2006. The Elbe swelled toward a new peak in Germany on Monday, with officials in the eastern state of Saxony expecting it to reach the 30-foot mark along the Czech border by nightfall.
Dusk Dust
Afghans return to their house after a day's work in Kabul, Monday, April 3, 2006. Violence is likely to increase in Afghanistan this year as foreign security forces expand into new areas and the government steps up its campaign against a booming trade in opium and heroin, a senior U.S. official warned Monday. Already last year was the deadliest in rebel violence since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban in 2001.
Calm Before The Storm
Kurdish men watch as riot police take position in the streets during clashes between Kurdish youths and security forces in the town of Viransehir, near the southeastern Turkish city of Urfa, Monday, April 3, 2006. Two Kurdish protesters died in a hospital after being injured during last week's clashes between rioters and Turkish security forces, including one elderly protester who died of head injuries from a beating.
Get Inline
More than 7,000 inline skaters burst out from the starting line during the Seoul World Inline Cup 2006 40-kilometer race in Seoul, Sunday April 9, 2006.
Penitent Point
A penitent walks in the center of Seville, southern Spain, Sunday April 9, 2006. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.
Bush Men
Brad Foster, center, and Nev Miller, right, move their elephant and giraffe hedges, among the hundreds of exhibits on display at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show in Melbourne, April 3, 2006. The show displays the best by landscape designers, horticulturalists, florists and industry retailers.
Somber Swan News
A swan is seen at Abbotsbury Swannery on April 7, 2006 in Dorset, England. On April 6, authorities in Scotland confirmed test results from a dead swan found in Cellardyke harbour, Scotland had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
Unrest
Police officers beat an opposition party supporter as hundreds of supporters protest against King Gyanendra defying a government imposed curfew in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 9, 2006.
Scene Of Disaster
A Ukranian child jumps off a tree next to his home at the village of Zurin just outside the exclusion zone, a highly-contaminated 18-mile area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Ukraine Friday, April 7, 2006. On April 26, Ukraine will mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Horse Play
Race goers wearing horses' heads study the race guides ahead of the second day of the Grand National, the world's most grueling steeple chase, at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, England, Friday April 7, 2006.
Mine Awareness Day
A pile of 2,000 single shoes lay in Trafalgar Square, London, April 4, 2006, placed there by MAG (Mines Advisory Group) to mark the first U.N. International Day for Mine Awareness. A total of 29 countries around the world participated in the first-ever international Mine Awareness Day.
No Poppies
A helicopter from the American security contractor DynCorp provides air support as members of the Afghan Eradication Force plow cut opium poppies on April 3, 2006 in a field near Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. Afghan forces supervised by the Irving, Tx. based company are feverishly working to eradicate the poppy fields before the harvest during the next month.
Chinese Memorial
A bouquet is laid on footprints of Nanjing Massacre survivors at the Nanjing Massacre Victims Memorial Hall on Qingming Festival, April 5, 2006 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. Chinese people marked the Qingming Festival, also known as the "Tomb Sweeping Day."